From Horror Writers Association’s Specialty Publisher of the Year comes a new novel from Bram Stoker® Award winner L. Marie Wood. The Tryst: A Red Thread Saga, Book One, a love story unlike any other, arrives on Valentine’s Day.
The Tryst is the first installment in The Red Thread Saga, a slipstream horror romance that will challenge the way you think about love, life, connection, and purpose. The Tryst will catch you in its whirlwind and never let you go.
Blurb: A moment in time… insignificant and fleeting for most, but for Nicole, Mark, and Eric, it is life-altering. Three strangers meet in a town they don’t know in a place they hadn’t expected to end up only to find that they are exactly where they were supposed to be… again.
Love always finds a way.
USA Today Bestselling Author, Dahlia Rose, said, “The Tryst has such a powerful undertone of not only romance, but it blended so well with the horror elements of the story that you were drawn in completely. L. Marie Wood weaves a tale of three people drawn together to form something so powerful that the love and loss was palpable. Fate, a journey of self-discovery, more? Each reader will take away some element from The Tryst that is different and memorable. But one thing is clear – L. Marie Wood leaves you breathless until the very last page is turned.”
L. Marie Wood is president of the Horror Writers Association, an Elgin, Rhysling, and Ignyte nominated author, and a Bram Stoker® Award winner. She’s also an award-winning screenwriter.
The Tryst: Book One in the Red Thread Saga will be available from Mocha Memoirs Press on February 14, 2026, in ebook and print formats.
